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MAN Solaris - replace (1)

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replace - A utility program that is used by msql2mysql, but that has more general applicability as well. replace changes strings in place in files or on the standard input. Uses a finite state machine to match longer strings first. Can be used to swap strings.

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replace [-?svIV] from to from to ... -- [files]

or replace [-?svIV] from to from to ... < fromfile > tofile

replace [-?|-I] [-s] [-v]

replace -?|-I
	info
-s	silent
-v	verbose

Special characters in from string: Special characters in from string: -->

\^	Match start of line.
\$	Match end of line.
\b	Match space-character, start of line or end of line. For a end \b the next replace starts locking at the end space-character. A \b alone in a string matches only a space-character.

this command swaps a and b in the given files:

shell> replace a b b a -- file1 file2 ...

isamchk(1), isamlog(1), mysql(1), mysqlaccess(1), mysqladmin(1), mysqld(1), mysqld_multi(1), mysqld_safe(1), mysqldump(1), mysql_fix_privilege_tables(1), mysqlshow(1), mysql_zap(1), perror(1),

For more information please refer to the MySQL reference manual, which may already be installed locally and which is also available online at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/

Please refer to http://bugs.mysql.com/ to report bugs.

Ver 1.0, distribution 4.0.24 Michael (Monty) Widenius (monty@mysql.com), MySQL AB (http://www.mysql.com/). This software comes with no warranty. Manual page by L. (Kill-9) Pedersen (kill-9@kill-9.dk), Mercurmedia Data Model Architect / system developer (http://www.mercurmedia.com)

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWmysqlr, SUNWmysqlu, SUNWmysqlt
Interface Stability	External

Source for mysql is available on http://opensolaris.org.

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